 | Joseph Timothy Haydn - 1868 - 876 pages
...used to sprinkle the ashes (embers) of humiliation on their heads. In the English church the Embir days are the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, after— the first Sunday in Lent, Whit-sunday, 14 Sept. (Holy Cross), and 13 Dec. (St. Lucia). EMBROIDERY is usually ascribed to the... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - 1868 - 664 pages
...in autumn at the harvesting, and in winter when they are garnered into the barns. The Ember-days arc the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, after Whitsunday, after September 14, Holy Cross, and after December 13, St. Lucy. The days kept varied in... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1871 - 370 pages
...that the ordination of priests and deacons should be on the four weeks of Ember, or ember days, viz. the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, after Whitsunday, after the fourteenth of September, and the thirteenth of December, and this ceremony being... | |
 | Henry Allden Nash - 1871 - 140 pages
...at these times ; and the Council of Placentia (1095) decreed that the special days for prayer were the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, after Whitsunday, after fourteenth of September, and after the thirteenth of December. (Bingham's Antiq.... | |
 | Orby Shipley - 1872 - 534 pages
...and particularly by the Church of England in Saxon times. They occur during the four seasons, being the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first...Sunday in Lent, after the feast of Pentecost, after Holy Cross day, September Hth, and S. Lucy's day, December 1 3th. Embering Thursday. The day after... | |
 | John Wycliffe Gedge - 1873 - 70 pages
...days set apart for fasting and prayer for those who are about to be ordained. The four Ember Seasons are the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, Whitsun Day, Sept. 14 and Dec. 13. The ordination Sunday is the one following each of these seasons.... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1874 - 878 pages
...Prayer of the Church pi England, three days are appointed four times in the year to be observed aa days of fasting and abstinence ; these days are the...'embering' has been variously derived from the Greek i^ifai, and from the embers or ashes which in the earliest times were strewed over the head at times... | |
 | Frances Burge Griswold - 1873 - 360 pages
...auswer%g to our four periods,— spring, summer, autumu, and winter." " Oh, yes," said Nanuette ; " the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the First Sunday in Lent, after the Feast of Pentecost on Whitsunday after the fourteenth of September and the thirteenth of December, and the Sundays after... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1874 - 530 pages
...as they are now observed by the council at Placentia, in 1095. They occur four times a year, being the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, after the feast of Pentecost or Whitsunday, after the festival of the Holy Cross (1 1th Sept.), and after the festival of St. Lucia... | |
 | Lyman Abbott - 1876 - 296 pages
...Saul. In the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, certain special seasons of fasting — in the latter the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, after Whit Sunday, after the 14th of September, and after the 13th of December — are set apart for special... | |
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... days are the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, after the feast of Pentecost, after the 14th September, and after the 13th December. The term 'embering... 
